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Title: The Unconsoled
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator: Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-07-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control.
The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past.
In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.
Critic Reviews:
"With this stunning new novel, cast in the form of a postmodern nightmare, Ishiguro tells a powerful story in which he once again exploits a narrator's utter lack of self-knowledge to create a devastating deadpan irony." (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
Members Reviews:
A Very Dreamlike Novel
In fact it was so convincingly dreamlike that it put me to sleep. That said, read some of this. It reveals what happens when people become so obsessed with artiface that they lose themselves.
Brilliant
Kazuo Ishiguroâs âThe Unconsoledâ is a true masterpiece. You put Wes Anderson, Alice in the Wonderland, 8 Â and Kafka in a saucepan, mix it well and you have âThe Unconsoledâ
The book is absolutely brilliant. It is quite dense, but also comical. I finished it about one month ago and it is still fresh in my mind. The whole story is absurd. But then I realized that our society is even worse.
I have been reading some articles/reviews about the book. There are quite of few of theories. This is not a book about answers, but questions. âThe Unconsoledâ is so multidimensional that is very likely that readers interpreted in a way that is not conforming to Ishiguroâs intent. I hope you enjoy it.
Dysfunctional
This is a very hard read, long, eerie, with no concrete plot, disturbing, off-putting at times. I have read a few other Ishiguro's books and have always been highly impressed with his writing, so I kept reading in the hope that something will actually happen, that things that sounded simply absurd would suddenly make sense, that open questions would be answered. I thought that maybe there would be a "Never let me go" kind of "twist"...? But no: it took me to the end of the book to realize this is what this book is all about, exploiting the absurd. Once I accepted it, I found the whole thing brilliant - but what a fight it was!
Sounding the Depths
Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Unconsoled.
I found this very fluent account of the narrator's struggle to become orientated in a nameless town in possibly Germany to be compulsive reading. It is partly about memory loss and it recalled to me Karinthy's Metropole,where a professor of linguistics ends up in a bustling modern city in central Europe in which nobody speaks any of the languages he knows. In The Unconsoled Mr Ryder, Ishiguro's narrator-hero, is met with extreme politeness by hotel staff, but frustratingly he fails to get exact clarification of his mission. He is scheduled to address an audience in a small town where Mr Brodsky, a reformed alcoholic pianist has returned to perform some classical studies.
